Okay, So what makes mine the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe in the entire world?

An easy, convenient recipe, and an absolutely divine combination of flavors and textures make the best chocolate chip cookies

I started my chocolate chip cookie baking journey with the toll house chips that everybody else uses. I've learned a thing or two since then.

Such as, getting your basic ingredients and techniques down is only about half of the ultimate chocolate chip cookie quest. The other half is really simple, but really important. Use the best chocolate you can get.

I came across the idea of breaking up a really good bar of chocolate and using it instead of chips, for a truly decadent cookie. The turning point in my career. Then it was a matter of figuring out which is the ultimate bar of chocolate for cookie baking purposes. A rough assignment, but someone had to do it, and I stepped up.

Now, my current (Update – now all gone – boo hoo!) supply of cookie baking chocolate is not a bar and it's not chocolate chips. I came across a clearance sale at a Lindt store, and found a table full of scruffy looking bags, which turned out to contain a pound each of smashed up and rejected dark chocolate santa clauses. You could see his poor cracked up features peering out, sadly. I bought as many as I could carry, more or less. With a little further busting up, these santa bits have made some of the most deliciously fragrant and decadent cookies yet. The secret is to use dark chocolate of about 60% to 70% cocoa solids (cacao) – not overwhelmingly strong, but wonderfully rich.

So without that lucky break, and once my supply runs out, then what?

Don't worry, it's easy. My mainstay for years has been Barry Callebaut. It's top quality stuff. And it's on Amazon. What could be better than unlimited chocolate by UPS? Check it out here – the exact chocolate you need for the ultimate chocolate chip cookie: Callebaut Chocolate – Pure – Bittersweet – 1 kg

Sacrilege or Genius? A Key Ingredient of the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie is. . . White Chocolate?

I came up with the addition of white chocolate because I love the stuff. Purists may scoff, but I think it adds another level of flavor without messing up the overall chocolate chip concept. I think it's part of what makes my recipe the absolute hands down best ever cookie, maybe because it's more forward sweetness and buttery mouth feel balance out the darker then usual brown chocolate I like to use.

Some people say that white chocolate is an oxymoron — that it just isn't chocolate. Here's why it is: true white chocolate is just made without the cocoa solids (the brown stuff), but WITH cocoa butter (the sublimely flavored, wish-it-was-body-lotion stuff). Again, Callebaut to the rescue: theirs ranks up there with the best white chocolate you can get, and they are local for me. I can find it in bulk in the local health food stores and the co-op — you can find it here: Callebaut Chocolate – Pure – White – 1 kg – enjoy!

So, just to remind you, it is my personal opinion that my recipe is the absolute best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever in the entire world, because I have never found a better one. I encourage you to give it a go, test the recipe and bake your own batch of my chocolate chip cookies and see if you don't agree. And here's my challenge: if you think your chocolate chip cookie recipe is better, send it in and I'll test it out, and I'll post it here for everyone to try themselves, and we'll let people vote on it. May the best chocolate chip cookie recipe win!

— Katie

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
In The Entire World

Well, I think so, and my family thinks this Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe is absolutely the best, and they love it so much they barely let me bake any other kind of cookie. My friends say nice things and devour entire platefuls in minutes. Try it and see if it doesn't kick every other chocolate chip cookie recipe you ever tried in the derriere!

If you think your chocolate chip cookie recipe is the best, prove it! If you send me your best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe I'll give it a whirl. If it's a contender I'll post it here and let everyone weigh in.

So here we go:

My Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Makes about 48 cookies

Preheat oven to 350°.

Beat together in mixer until fluffy:

2 sticks butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 cup light brown sugar

Add one at a time, blend moderately fast:

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Blend in slowly:

1/2 cup dried, shredded coconut, unsweetened

2 cups unbleached flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

Add and mix just until evenly mixed:

3/4 cup dark chocolate chips or chunks ( at least 55% cocoa solids, 70% preferred)

1/2 cup white chocolate chips or chunks (REAL white chocolate!)

1 cup walnuts broken to small pieces

Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 11 minutes approx.